Adjustable curtain-pole support



UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE. BARBER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.'

AQJUSJ'ABLE CURTAIN-POLE SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IPaterit No., 524,080, dated August 7, 1894. n Application filed February 14, 1893. Serial No. 462,322. (No model.)

curtain-pole supporting-devices; 'and it consistsin certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a portion of a window-casing provided with my improved curtain-pole supportingdevices, the curtain-pole being shown supported in position. Fig.2is an enlarged side elevation of my improved curtain-polesupporting-device and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3-3, Fig. 2. i

Referring to the drawings, A represents thecasing of a window; B the curtain-.pole supporting-devices, and C the curtain-pole.

The curtain-pole supportingdevice comprises an arm, 4, provided with any suitable means, such, for instance, as a screw, 5, for securing it to the window-casing, and comprises a ring, 6, suspended by means of a strap or band, 7, from arm 4.

The ring 6 and arm 4 are preferably made of wood, whereas' the ring-suspending strap or band is vpreferably made of sheet metal.

Two curtain-pole supporting-devices are provided for each pole and, when'secured to the window-casing, project forwardly or laterally of the latter, the curtain-pole being supported by rings 6 of the supporting-devices.

The strap or band 7 is preferably made of a single strip of metal, and embraces the top and sides of arm 4 of the curtain-pole supportingdevice and is secured at its ends to ring 6, as shown very clearly in Figs. 2 and 3, portions 8 of the strap or band between the arm and Y ring being perforated laterally, as at 9, for

the reception of the screw-threaded shank of a thumb-screw, l0, that engages a correspondingly-threaded hole or perforation in a lug or boss 1l formed upon said strap or band. The

When loose upon arm 4 band or strap 7 and attached ring are capable of being moved or adjusted endwise of said arm toward or from the window-casing, and are secured in the desired adjustment by manipulating the thumbscrew in the direction to' draw portions ,8 of the band or strap together.

I am aware that adjustable curtain-polesupporting-devices have heretofore been devised, and I am also aware that there has heretofore been used a device consisting of a bracket having laterally-projecting flanges at its upper end, a slide resting upon said flanges and embracing the outer portions of the flanges, said slide carrying a semi-cylindrical curtain-pole rest and provided with a set-screw forsecuring the same to the bracket in the desired adjustment. Such bracket is necessarilyl made of metal and the construct.

tion involved is comparatively expensive.

What I claim isl. In a curtain-pole, the combination with an arm adapted to be secured to a windowcasing and project forwardly therefrom and a pole-supporting-device, of a strap consisting of a single piece of metal secured at its ends to the pole-supporting-device and bent loosely around the arm, and a setscrew adapted to turn in the portions of the strap reaching from the arm to the pole-supporting-device for tightening or loosening the strap upon the arm.

2. A curtain-pole supporting-device, the combination with the stationary-arm 4, of the ring 6, and the strap or band 7 suitably secured to the ring and extending 4from one side of the ring upwardly to and over the aforesaid arm, and thence downwardly to the opposite side of said ring, said band or strap being capable of beingslid endwise of the 4 supporting-arm and a, screw engaging the Lion,in thepresenoeof two witnesses, this 31st portions of the band or strap between the day of December, 1892. ring and supporting-arm and adapted to 'Eighten said band or strap upon the suppoit- GEORGE BARBER' 5 lng-arm and thereby hold the same in the de- Witnesses: Y

sired adjustment,substantially as seb forth. C. H. DORER,

In testimony whereof I sign this speoica- WARD HOOVER. 

